Improvement in swinging-can boxes



H. AUKER. Swinging-Gan Box.

N9 217,568. Pa'tentedJ uly15,1879.

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WITNESSES Q/' ATTORNEY HENRY AGKER, or NEW YORK, n. Y.,

ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO \VINTON O. GARRISON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWINGlNG-CAN BO XES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,568, dated July 15,1879; application filed May 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY AGKER, of New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inSwingingGan Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, an d exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view ofthe box-lid. Fig. 2 is a like view of its body 5 and Fig. 3 is a detailview, in section, of a side or end of the box.

This invention has relation to swinging-box cans for transporting andstoring oils and other liquids; and the nature of theinvention consistsin a box-can constructed substantially as hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a preferably metallic can,constructed substantially after the manner described in the patent to0.1%. Otis, dated November 16,1869, and numbered 96,949, and providedwith a faucet constructed as shown in patent to Fenn Wilcox, hearingdate of September 10, 1878, and numbered 207 ,926, which patents I nowcontrol; but I do not wish to be understood asconfining myself to theirspecial modes of construction. This can has at each sideastron gprojecting trunnion, a, the object of which will be hereinafterexplained;

B indicates a wooden box, of a form corresponding to that of the can,and designed to receive the same snugly. The ends D of the box,corresponding to the sides of the can, which carry the trunnions a, areextended upward, as shown at b, a distance above the body thereof equalto the depth of the lid or cover 0, within which the standards I), thusformed, are designed to be received, holding said lid from endwise andsidewise movement. These ends and standards are made in one piece bytaking a piece of boa-rd of double or nearly double theordinarythickness of the sides of the body and lid, equal to the insideheight of the whole box, and forming exterior rabbets c by suitableappliances, the shoulder o of the rabbet being on a level with the topedges of the sides. It will be noticed that the ends of the box are thusmade unusually strong, and are rendered free from warping, which is theresult in boxes of this class when made in sections.

In each of the standards b is made a central open-ended vertical slot, 0in which the trunnions a are received when the said can is seated in thebox, and upon their upper edges 1 form a notch, i, in which the saidtrunnions have their bearings when it is desired to tilt the can for thepurpose of emptying its contents, the relative height of the standardsand can being such that the latter has free vibration withoutinterference with the body of the box.

As before said, the lid fits snugly over the standards b, in contacttherewith at the ends, resting upon the sides of the box and upon theshoulders 0 and it is secured to the box by means of the spring-latchesd. These consist of a coil, 0, secured to the lid 0 by means of staplesz and two legs, 0, and hooks 0 the coil being secured to the lid withthe legs depending below it, and the entire catch being made of a singlepiece of sufficiently springy wire. The hooks are designed to engagestaples t" upon the body of the box, and the engagement is effected bycompressing the legs until the hooks enter the said staples,

when the reaction caused by the spring-coil 0 will hold them lockedtogether.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a rectangular wooden oil-case, of the bodyportion, consisting of the bottom, sides, and ends of double thickness,rabbeted to form slotted vertical standards 1), extending upward beyondextension -shoulders, with the lid 0 resting upon the upper edges of theside walls and shoulders of the end walls, and held in position by theend standards, over which it fits, and with which it is in contact atits end, substantially as specified.

springs d, having the coils, 6, legs e and hooks hereunto subscribed myname in the presence 0 secured to said lid by means of staples z, of twowitnesses.

of the body B, having ends and standards made in one piece provided withstaples i,

adapted to receive the hooks e of said springs, Witnesses:

substantially as specified. W. O. GARRISON, In testimony that I claimthe above I have JOHN HANLEY.

HENRY AOKER.

